Grammar of the Shot, 5th Edition

Chapter FiveWill It Cut? Shooting for Editing

DOI: 10.4324/9781003257356-5

• The Chronology of Production

• Continuity and Performance

• Continuity and Screen Direction

• The 180-Degree Rule

• Jumping the Line

• The 30-Degree Rule

• Reciprocating Imagery

• Eye-Line Matching

It is important to remember that the planning and recording of your shots is only one part of the visual storytelling process. No matter what type of fiction or non-fiction motion media project you need to create, the scripting stage is the basis for the content: the story. The careful filmmaker will generate shot lists and storyboards from the script: think of these as the “paper edit” formed during pre-production. He or she will have a vision of what the final project should look like, ...